Do you get a better result with the following?-

/usr/bin/who | awk '/console/{ print $1 }'

If not, you can use your command and send it through another cut like this-

| cut -d@ -f1

That should leave you with everything from before the @ symbol, meaning "tkimpton'

OMG wow that if friggin awesome.

Thank you very much

went on a bender last night and my brain has b een hitting a brick wall ;)

following in the "1001 ways to do" X tradition: ```
who | grep console | awk '{print $1}'
```

/dev/console does seem to be a bit more reliable, sometimes when logging out one user and logging in a new one who on the console can produce less than consistent results in my experience anyway...

Yet another way which avoids grep and awk:

stat -f "%Su" /dev/console

Thanks guys :)

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